This Article establishes the exclusive procedure for adjudicating a person to be an incompetent adult or an incompetent child. However, nothing in this Article shall interfere with the authority of a judge to appoint a guardian ad litem for a party to litigation under Rule 17(b) of the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.
History
(1987, c. 550, s. 1; 2003-236, s. 4.)
Legal Periodicals. - For article, "Holding, Dictum... Whatever," see 25 N.C. Cent. L.J. 139 (2003).